Turkish government detains 774 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement in a...
Turkish government has detained at least 774 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement in the week of September 11-18, 2017, according...
Rights defender faces anti-terror probe for speaking out against rights abuses in Turkey
An anti-terror investigation was launched against Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a physician, columnist and the former head of Association for Human Rights and Solidarity for...
Deceased jurist’s daughter says parliamentarians, media ignored calls for help
Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of the recently-deceased jurist Mustafa Erdoğan said the deputies as well as the newspapers she tried to reach out to...
Under threat of arrest in US, Erdoğan leaves his security detail at home
Members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail who were indicted in the US for violently attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., in...
15-month-old held in Turkey’s prison suffered from bad conditions
Hundreds of infants have been kept in pretrial detention in Turkey’s jails with their mothers due to a state of emergency (OHAL) designed to...
ITUC reiterates its call for boycott ILO meeting in İstanbul on October 2-5
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has reiterated its call for members to boycott International Labor Organization's (ILO) 10th European Regional Meeting in İstanbul in October...
Thousands gather in Diyarbakır for pro-Kurdish HDP’s ‘Conscience, Justice and Democracy’ meeting
Thousands of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) supporters have gathered for “Conscience, Justice and Democracy” meeting in Station Square of Diyarbakır province on...
Trump meeting has special importance, says Erdoğan
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said he attributes special importance to his upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump, the state-run...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Soylu says he won’t resign over photo with cemetery attacker
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said he would not resign over a photo he posed for with Murat Alp, a participant in a...
Candidate for German chancellor Schulz says will not be blackmailed by Erdoğan
Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader and candidate for German chancellor Martin Schulz on Saturday strongly criticized Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over human...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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